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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Day Twenty-Nine, Antigua

The Cathedral was lite up while we walked around
Saturday morning at 9am I moved to my new home stay. This house is on the opposite side of Antigua from the other students at Casa Herrera. Everyone else is on the northern side of Antigua, but this house is on the southern side. I am right on the street with the arc, all the way down the southern side of the road about four blocks from the Central Plaza. The house belongs to an older woman named Olga who is very nice and very patient with me and my Spanish. She also has a maid who comes to the house everyday except Sundays. The house is very cute and small, and Olga has a large collection of books in both English and Spanish.
This band was playing the best Jamaican music in the Plaza
On Saturday, Olga's son and daughter-in-law were over at the house with their two children, and we all had lunch together. There is also another person staying at the house; a Canadian girl who is here to do volunteer work at Hermano Pedro.
At dinner time Olga had a very large group of family members over to celebrate the wedding anniversary of her son and daughter-in-law. Myself and the girl from Canada ate a quick sandwich at the dining table, where I tried to have a conversation with one of Olga's older relatives, then we went out to the Central Plaza for about an hour, enjoying all the people out walking that evening. There were a bunch of activities going on all around the Plaza and on the street of the arc.
There were even fireworks!
I went back to my house that night and studied in my private room until about 11pm.

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